My suspicion is that City started this money laundering scheme with Arsenal in 2022. It began with Jesus and Zinchenko. Now Chelsea and Tottenham have been recruited. City even tried to bring Liverpool in this summer but failed, maybe next year.
🚨🎙️Toni Kroos on Cristiano Ronaldo replying to Lionel Messi’s Instagram post:
“I don’t think Cristiano needed to respond to that. The Messi post was clearly an advertisement, and seeing Cristiano reply to it tells me he wasn’t completely happy with what he saw. That’s the part I don’t find professional.
Cristiano has spent years engaging with the GOAT debate, whether it’s through interviews, comments or even sitting down with Piers Morgan and calling himself the greatest. So when Messi makes one advertisement suggesting the debate is settled, suddenly Cristiano feels the need to respond on his story? Come on.
And I already know people will say I’m only saying this because I don’t like Cristiano. That’s nonsense. I played with prime Ronaldo. I know exactly what he was capable of, and I love him as a teammate.
But playing alongside Cristiano doesn’t mean I have to ignore what I see in football. Once you understand the game, you understand that Messi is simply incomparable. That’s why people think I’m always against Ronaldo. I’m not. I just believe there are some things in football you have to admit.”
Sources familiar with negotiations on the #ManCity side say Chelsea asked them to back away from Ayyoub Bouaddi so he could replace Enzo Fernandez at Stamford Bridge, and to swap Nico O’Reilly for Malo Gusto, on top of the £80M asking price.
Chelsea deny they asked @ManCity to step aside so they could move for Bouaddi and say Gusto was never available for a move.
[via @SamLee]
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